Nigeria

World Renew has been working in Nigeria since 1969.

Nigeria

World Renew has been working in Nigeria since 1969.

WHAT WE DO

Nigeria continues to face the daunting task of reforming a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement. Nigeria struggles with issues of corruption in private sectors, widespread poverty, unemployment, underemployment, prolonged Boko Haram insurgency, as well as the impact of HIV and AIDS.

Economic Opportunity

Community Health

Peace and Justice

Disaster Response

COUNTRY COVID UPDATE

2021 has brought a second wave of COVID-19 spreading throughout the country. However, the start of spring has also brought hope as Nigeria received nearly 4 million COVID-19 vaccines in late March and have begun vaccinating the population.

World Renew is continuing to ensure vulnerable families have access to clean drinking water, emergency food rations, and trauma healing programming.

As conflict and displacement in the North persists, our local partners continue to provide cash to families each month to ensure that families can purchase food from local markets. On top of this, many are also receiving support to improve their own small-scale farming or small-business efforts. Our local partners have identified that women in northern Nigeria are increasingly vulnerable due to COVID-19, and are actively working to ensure the protection and involvement of women through these responses.

The situation in Nigeria is critical. Some estimates say humanitarian progress has been set back 25 years by this pandemic. Furthermore, violence continues to escalate unabated in the pandemic’s wake. Your gifts to Nigeria go straight towards allowing World Renew to continue and, hopefully, scale up our programming in response. We can’t meet these needs without you.

Partners In Nigeria

BEACON OF HOPE INITIATIVE (BHI)

World Renew (along with the Christian Reformed World Missions – CRWM) started Beacon of Hope Initiative in 2001 in order to work directly with communities, organizations, and more specifically with the Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria (a membership organization currently made up of 15 national church denominations commonly referred to as TEKAN) in responding to HIV and AIDS pandemic and other health and community development related issues. BHI was officially registered with the Nigerian government as a corporate body on October 7, 2010. Through the Embrace AIDS campaign, World Renew enhanced the efforts of Beacon of Hope Initiative by equipping religious groups, communities, and other organizations to empower and transform individuals and their communities. World Renew also facilitated BHI partnership with USAID and Food for the Hungry International to promote sexual abstinence for singles (especially among youth) and faithfulness for married couples. World Renew also facilitated BHI partnership with Oikonomos Foundation in responding to the HIV and AIDS situation in Nigeria. World Renew is currently in its third year of facilitating BHI partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (DFATD) in a four-year agreement to support Beacon of Hope Initiative to address adolescent health and rights in Nigeria. Through BHI, World Renew is also reaching out to traumatized individuals and communities in eight northern states in Nigeria. Widows and orphans are also being supported with grant from Africa Widows and Orphans Support organization in the US. Through support from River Terrace Church in Lansing, USA, Beacon of Hope Initiative is reaching out to the poor and responding to HIV and AIDS in NKST – Universal Reformed Christian Church. Grace and Light International, an HIV and AIDS ministry also collaborates with World Renew and BHI.

ECUMENICAL CENTRE FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE (ECJP)

The Ecumenical Centre for Justice and Peace (ECJP) is a non-governmental organization established in 1996 to address injustice issues and violent crises prevalent in Nigeria. ECJP has grown to expand its programs in the area of HIV and AIDS, health education, income generation, and adult literacy. ECJP trains and empowers communities, organizations, and individuals to bring about peaceful co-existence, to enhance responsive, participatory, and accountable governance, and to promote people-oriented community-based development.

BEAUTIFUL GATE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE CENTER

The Beautiful Gate Handicapped People Center (commonly called ‘Beautiful Gate’) is established with a view to glorify God by providing physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual support to those who are in some way handicapped, in order for them to become more self-sufficient and serve their families and communities better. The organization provides a very good platform for Christian-Muslim peaceful collaboration and peacebuilding.

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